THE ATLANTIC | Volume 295 No. 1 | January/February 2005

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Atlantic cover Calendar

Letters to the Editor

The Agenda
COMMENT  Clintonism, R.I.P.  How triangulation became strangulation
by Chuck Todd

FOREIGN AFFAIRS  The Widening Atlantic  Our growing transatlantic estrangement has less to do with George W. Bush's foreign policy than with deep social changes in Europe
by Niall Ferguson

CASE HISTORY  Presidential Ailments
by Nathan Littlefield & Benjamin Healy

THE ART OF POLICY  Redheaded Eskimo  The corporate tax bill—an explanation
by P. J. O'Rourke

CROSS-EXAMINATION  Letting Go of Roe  Roe v. Wade has been deeply unhealthy for abortion rights—and for democracy
by Benjamin Wittes

THE LIST  Trivial Pursuits
by Michael Slenske

THE ODDS  Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
by John Sellers

Primary Sources  How car insurance causes death; the Brits and foreplay; how long could you survive without the Internet?

THE WORLD IN NUMBERS  A Muslim Europe?  [This article is unavailable online.]
by Ross Douthat

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Ten Years Later
"Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America." A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011
by Richard A. Clarke
INTERVIEWS  Fatal Vision
Richard Clarke talks about his frightening scenario of an America hobbled by terrorism—and what we can do to avoid it
by Katie Bacon [Web only]
Success Without Victory
A "containment" strategy for the age of terror
by James Fallows

Letter From Baghdad
Life in the wilds of a city without trust
by William Langewiesche

What Amy Would Do
Meet Amy Dickinson, agony aunt for the twenty-first century
by Sridhar Pappu

Lost in the Meritocracy
How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class
by Walter Kirn

STATE OF THE UNION  One Nation, Divisible
by The Editors

STATE OF THE UNION  Bipolar Disorder
A funny thing happened to many of the scholars who went out into the country to investigate the red-blue divide. They couldn't find it
by Jonathan Rauch

STATE OF THE UNION  Shaken and Stirred
The United States is about to experience economic upheaval on a scale unseen for generations. Will social harmony be a casualty?
by Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong

STATE OF THE UNION  Beyond Belief
The real religious divide in the United States isn't between the churched and the unchurched. It's between different kinds of believers
by Hanna Rosin

STATE OF THE UNION  The Massless Media
With the mass media losing their audience to smaller, more targeted outlets, we may be headed for an era of noisy, contentious press reminiscent of the 1800s
by William Powers

STATE OF THE UNION  Continental Divides
The Crescent of Crime, the Spousal Spine, the Divorce Coasts, the Righteous Region, and other sources of national greatness
by P. J. O'Rourke

POETRY  A Place for the Bees
(from Virgil's Georgics) [with audio]
Translated by David Ferry

Field Guide
A poetry anthology
Questions of Replication: The Brittle Star
[with audio]
by Linda Bierds
The Cohort
[with audio]
by Maxine Kumin
Flying Seed
[with audio]
by D. Nurkse
POETRY  Retrospective
[with audio]
by Geri Doran

Sports Names in the News
by Bruce McCall

SHORT STORY  A Record Book for Small Farmers
Had her father been a coward all these years, his reticence a cover for things he was afraid to say?
by Anna North

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Books and Critics
EDITOR'S CHOICE  An Exquisite Slogger
V. S. Pritchett, by Jeremy Treglown; Born Losers, by Scott A. Sandage; War in the Wild East, by Ben Shepherd
by Benjamin Schwarz

The Murdoch Touch
If Rupert's so bad, why is Fox so good?
by Tom Carson

Darling Me
Christopher Isherwood followed Oscar Wilde's prescription for lifelong romance by falling in love with himself—over and over again
by Thomas Mallon

A Nice Bloody Fool
Beneath the surface the vaguely preposterous Stephen Spender had a pith of seriousness and principle
by Christopher Hitchens

READING LIST  Easier Said Than Done
Five novels by critics who learned their lesson
by David Kipen

Chameleon With a Toupee
Bobby Darin was so determined to be somebody that he tried to be everybody
by David Hajdu

A CLOSE READ  Villages, by John Updike
Appraising the substance of style
by Christina Schwarz

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Pursuits and Retreats
INNOCENT BYSTANDER  People to People
Some say that liberals and conservatives need to build bridges of understanding. Drawbridges might be better
by Cullen Murphy

A LOOK BACK  45 Years Ago in The Atlantic
"The Job of the Washington Correspondent"

MUSIC  X Jazz
The pianist Matthew Shipp is the star of the latter-day free-jazz scene—the only scene in jazz right now with younger faces in the audience
by Francis Davis

TRAVELS  Russia's Holy Warriors
Fervently Orthodox, anti-Islamic, and proudly militaristic, the Cossacks are on the rise in Vladimir Putin's new Russia
by Jeffrey Tayler

THE PUZZLER  What's What
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Word Court
by Barbara Wallraff

POST MORTEM  Broadway's Last Good Time
Cy Coleman (1929-2004)
by Mark Steyn

Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy